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Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (TAST)

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The Company is a restaurant company in the United States operating three restaurant brands in the quick-casual and quick-service restaurant segments.

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Micro Cap (4701), IPO in 2006 (145), Distressed (1597), Growth (1902), Consumer Discretionary (795), Cyclical (3415), Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure (141)
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Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $6.38
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $6.38
Previous Close: $6.32
Daily Range: $6.32 - $6.50
52-Week Range: $2.52 - $8.18
Volume: 19,751
Market Cap: $137.77M
P/E Ratio: 6.20
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Avatar CycleFreak7 (< 20) Submitted: 2/25/07 6:57 PM

It seems like a risk to add TAST as an outperform choice to my caps picks with the stock on a downward trend and reporting Q4, 2006 results on Thursday, March 1.

However, it seems likely that TAST will exceed the (few) analyst's estimates. Also, it is down 10.5% from the Dec IPO price and down 8.5...More

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Avatar EclecticRecluse (74.33) Submitted: 11/23/09 2:07 PM : Outperform Start Price: $6.72 TAST Score: -1.90

High Sales and Return on Equity

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Avatar lucyamclean (94.08) Submitted: 5/04/09 5:44 PM : Outperform Start Price: $6.81 TAST Score: -25.94

This food service stock has some good bones after several owners and changes. I think it will make it to the $11 range by mid 2010.

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Avatar BrianTenenbaum (28.53) Submitted: 8/27/08 8:16 PM : Outperform Start Price: $5.30 TAST Score: 34.80

Burger king is crap, but the Hispanic restaurants are killer

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Avatar TheStillMan (< 20) Submitted: 7/28/08 10:17 AM : Outperform Start Price: $5.05 TAST Score: 38.36

Carrols Restaurant Group is the largest single Burger King franchisee in the US, providing funding and expansion opportunities for their other 2 franchises, namely Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana. Both of these provide truly excellent value for money. I live in Texas, with its plethora of Tex-Mex choices, and can confirm that Taco Cabana in particular more than matches an average Tex-Mex restaurant, and at a cost not much more than a fast food outlet. The majority of the Pollo Tropical restaurants are presently located in Florida, while Taco Cabana is largely restriced to Texas. Quite clearly, there is tremendous room for expansion. Carrols seems to be a relative unknown amongst the institutional crowd. Metrics are very good (forward P/E of 6.2 vs. expected yoy growth of 17.3%). My one very significant concern is debt load. There's no question that they're walking a bit of a tightrope here. Question is, will management find the right balance between expansion and debt? Until proven otherwise, I am going to assume so.

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Avatar MilfCNY (< 20) Submitted: 2/23/08 4:47 PM : Outperform Start Price: $7.99 TAST Score: -2.59

I don't know much about the Burger King franchise business, which is what this company does primarily.
However, I do know that taco cabana is a great place to eat in Tulsa Oklahoma, and probably anyplace else. It looks like the other carroll's original concept (pollo tropical) is doing better even than the cabana I have such fond memories of.
So I'll buy in at this price (half the ipo) based on the idea that those restaurants will make up a progressively higher percent of the stock's value.

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